Wall-paper



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N.YR.sTR-EETER. WALL PAPER. 10.444,213. Patented Jan. 6, 1891.

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NOBLE R. STREETER, OF BROOKLYN, NEIV YORK.

WALL-PAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 444,213, dated January 6, 1891.

Application filed February 15, 1889. Serial No. 299,998. (No specimens.)

To all whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, NOBLE R. SJREETER, of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have lnade cert-ain' new and useful Improvements in Tall-Paper; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specilication.

Tall-paper as heretofore hung is put up in the roll in a continuous strip-one roll for the body of the paper, another for the border, and a third for the dado, if one is used. In hanging it the body of the paper has to be laid on to the wall in a strip, commencing at the top and leaving a space for the border,which is then laid on. In case of use of a dado, the same is cut from another roll and placed at the lower portion of each length. The dado is sometimes laid onto the bare wall and sometimes over the lower portion of the body of the paper, which is continued down to the surbase.

Now ceilings, particularly those of bedrooms, are of a conventional height, usually nine, ten, or eleven feet between the cornice or angle of the ceiling and the top of the surbase. My improvement therefore consists in making a roll of Wall-paper in which shall be contained strips, say, of either nine, ten, eleven feet, or other lengths, and on each of which strips shall be contained a length of wall-paper, together with a border at top and dado at the bottom of such strip. All the paper-hanger has, therefore, to do after obtaining the measurement of the wall between the angle of the ceiling or lower edge of the cornice and the top edge of the surbase is to take a roll which has strips of that dimension, unroll a strip from off of the roll, cut it off, and paste it on to the wall, beginning at the top or end containing` the border. The time consumed in thus hanging the wall-paper, border, &c., is very largely reduced over the old method, in which last-mentioned method separate rolls were used and the paper out off of each and laid on in sections. These strips in the roll may be made without the dado so as to furnish wall-paper with a border alone in strips; or a dado can be used, leaving off the border. The latter may be desirable in case of a cornice being below the angle of the ceiling not convenient-ly permitting of the use of a border.

I claim* l. As a new article of manufacture, a roll of wall-paper containing strips or lengths, each of which strips or lengths has combined a border with the wall-paper, substantially as described.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a roll of wall-paper containing strips or lengths,-

each of which strips or lengths has combined a dado with the wall-paper, substantially as described.

As a new article of manufacture, a roll of wall-paper containing strips or lengths, each of which strips or lengths has combined a border and dado with the wall-paper, substantially as described.

NOBLE R. STREETER.

Witnesses:

A. M. TODD, J. C. WARD. 

